The Chicago Sky get to measure their recent improvement against one of the WNBA's best teams Friday. Chicago (11-16) return from an eight-day layoff to host the defending champion Los Angeles Sparks (20-8) at Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Ill., in the third and final meeting of the season. The Sky

Two weeks ago, the Minnesota Lynx were 20-2 and burning through their WNBA schedule. Then the team lost point guard Lindsay Whalen to a hand injury and the league's best team is 1-3 since. Things in Minnesota will get a little easier Friday when the Lynx (21-5) host the Indiana Fever (9-19) at

The New York Liberty won their third game in a row when they stopped the Los Angeles Sparks at Madison Square Garden last Sunday, raising their record to 15-12. "I think we've found our mojo a little bit as a team and we just want to keep continuing this," Shavonte Zellous said after her